Posted on 09/17/2013 8:23:21 PM PDT by TexGrill
If Greg Abbott is the Republican nominee for governor next year, GOP challenger Tom Pauken says Democrat Wendy Davis could win. Pauken, the former chairman of the state Republican Party, is a long-shot candidate against Abbott. He says Abbott might look unassailable at the moment, but he’s beatable – especially if Davis decides to run for governor on the other side. At a recent tea party event in Bedford, Pauken told the crowd: “If it’s Wendy Davis vs. Greg Abbott, then she has a 40 percent chance of winning.”
Pauken’s uphill fight underscores a larger tension within the GOP, pitting the party’s social conservative and tea party wings against the Republican establishment. He’s traveling the state meeting with Republican audiences. And as we reported today, one thing he’s finding is that conservative audiences are wary about the prospects of Davis, whose 11-hour filibuster against an abortion bill catapulted her to fame in the Democratic Party. Democrats haven’t elected a governor in Texas since 1990 and experts say the Fort Worth state senator would have little chance of winning the Governor’s Mansion. And the fact that she’s so closely associated with abortion rights probably would help much in a general election in Texas. But Pauken cautions that Davis has certain strengths that Abbott would find hard to counter.
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This headline almost makes it sound he endorses Wendy Davis over Abbott, if that is the case he should probably be in a different primary.
I do not know a lot about Tom Pauken but if all I know about him is attacks on Greg Abbott, then it makes me think maybe he is a McCain type who bashes those in his own party and not those in the other party.
Tom Pauken, show us how conservative you are instead of just attacking Abbott. That is the real way to win the primary without salting the ground you are trying to win.
>> Of all the contortions you are going to defend him
What contortions am I going to? I said he’s lame and ineffectual and needs a primary.
But he is NOT “evil”.
Words have meaning. You chose yours poorly and I’m calling you out on it.
Do you even live in the US? Why are you so belligerent about my senator but you don’t even have the balls to say where YOU live? Answer me that.
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